Certified Breathwork Instructor · St. Louis, MO
Breathwork training in St. Louis.
Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor (CBI) with Harmonika Institute in St. Louis, MO. Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor — pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and trauma-informed group work.
St. Louis cohort at a glance
- Tuition
- $3,000
- Format
- 100% in person
- In-person teaching
- 8 days · 64h
- Personal study
- ~51h
- Cohort size
- 10 students
- Credential
- CBI
Same tuition in every city
In St. Louis, MO
8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days
Between sessions, on average
Fixed cohort, start to finish
Private certification, not a state license
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Jun 4 – Aug 8, 2027
Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 8 teaching days in 3 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort
- Module 1Jun 4–6
- Module 2Jul 9–11
- Module 3Aug 7–8
Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the St. Louis venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.
Seats
10 students
Enrolment closes
May 14, 2027
Two minutes, no payment today. Our admissions team contacts you within two business days.
Why Breathwork in St. Louis?
St. Louis's wellness market is smaller than larger Midwest metros but unusually loyal — practitioners build long-term client relationships and the community is closely networked. Our cohorts here include educators, healthcare workers, and community-service professionals.
For students of Breathwork specifically, St. Louis's scene is a particularly good match: tight-knit practitioner community. strong client retention rates. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Central West End, The Loop, Soulard, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
St. Louis students are often 35-55, with backgrounds in education, healthcare, social services, and church-community work. The cohort is smaller than larger metros and unusually committed.
What you'll be training in.
For a deeper introduction to Breathwork as a practice tradition, see the full program page.
Breathwork is an umbrella term for practices that use intentional patterns of breathing to shift psychological, physiological, and energetic states. The category includes ancient yogic pranayama (nadi shodhana, kapalabhati, bhramari, ujjayi, and many others), Tibetan Tummo, Sufi practices, modern conscious-connected breathing (Rebirthing, Transformational, and related schools), and contemporary clinical applications (4-7-8 breathing, box breathing, coherent breathing).
What a working breathwork facilitator actually does varies widely depending on lineage and context. A pranayama-trained yoga teacher leading slow, deliberate breath ratios in a class of twenty creates a different experience than a facilitator trained in an intensive circular-breathing lineage running a multi-hour group session with deliberately intensified breathing. Both are legitimate; both serve different purposes; both require structured training to do safely.
The Breathwork curriculum in St. Louis: 8 in-person days.
Eight days to guide the breath safely, from one client to a full circle.
- Teaching days
- 8
- Teaching hours
- 64h
- Cohort size
- 10
days, 7h each
in the room
in your St. Louis cohort
| Day | Theme |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 · Days 1–3The breath | |
| 01 | How we breathe |
| 02 | Functional breathing and stress regulation |
| 03 | Classical pranayama |
| Chapter 2 · Days 4–6Hands on | |
| 04 | Conscious-connected breathing |
| 05 | The private session, start to finish |
| 06 | Trauma sensitivity and intense moments |
| Chapter 3 · Days 7–8Your practice | |
| 07 | Holding a circle |
| 08 | Ethics, business and certification |
Signature moment of the program
When Breathwork cohorts run in St. Louis.
St. Louis cohorts adjust around the Midwest winter. May and September starts dominate; January cohorts are small. Tornado season (April-June) occasionally requires scheduling adjustments.
Who this St. Louis cohort is for.
Yoga teachers, coaches, and somatic practitioners who want to add a powerful, well-bounded one-on-one and group modality to their work.
Where your St. Louis training leads.
- Open a private Breathwork practice (CBI)
- Lead breathwork circles in studios, retreats, and community settings
- Add breathwork to a yoga, coaching, or somatic practice
- Specialize in stress, anxiety, or peak performance breathwork
$3,000 for the full 8-day Breathwork program in St. Louis.
Same tuition whether you study in St. Louis or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the St. Louis cohort.
Tuition and financing details$3,000
64h of teaching · 8 in-person days
Breathwork: questions students ask first.
- Grounding Techniques Practitioners Use Before and After SessionsGrounding techniques for practitioners: 5-4-3-2-1, feet-and-breath anchoring, weight and contact, cold water, the 60-second body scan, with times and limits.9 min read
- Breathwork Certification: Styles, Safety and Scope of PracticeThe four families of breathwork, how differently they behave in a room, who must be screened out, and where a facilitator's scope of practice stops.10 min read
- Breathwork vs Mindfulness Training: Which Fits Your PracticeTwo practices that get shelved together and are temperamentally opposite. What each session looks like, who buys it, what it earns, and which one suits you.11 min read
Breathwork certification in other Harmonika cities.
Next step
Become a Certified Breathwork Instructor in St. Louis.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in St. Louis, MO. Free, online, one hour.